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Originally Posted by choppedliver
This started for me tonight. Right hand wheel, left hand turns. Can only hear it because I had the windows down. Happens at low and higher speeds. Sounds like a metallic crackle. I’ve had spacers on for 2 years and thus is new. Seems to happen once the car/brakes are warmed up as it wasn’t there when I first started driving.
Thinking I will take the wheel and spacer off and degrease the mating surfaces as the first thing to try. Also gives me a chance to check the lug tightness.
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Definitely remove the front spacers and put back on the original lugs. As I’ve chronicled here, my issue was “stretched” lugs that kept loosening even after torqued correctly. The loosening caused the tick. Once my shop took them off and went back to stock, the tick was gone and stayed gone.
Over a year later with the new replacement Dinan lugs and spacers and all is good. I’ve even had the front tires replaced since which meant taking the wheels off and reinstalling and tourquing and all is good.
Seems my detailer over torqued the first set of Dinan lugs and stretched them out. My shop said they still should not have done this so it makes you wonder about the material used on the Dinan lugs.